On Jun 23, 2009, at 05:20 , Luke Palmer wrote:
obsolete now, will your code still work when they are gone? Will it still work when the typeclass resolution algorithm is obsoleted by a superior algorithm (I'm looking at you, Oleg! :-)? When Haskell is obsolete, how hard will it be to port?
This is the point at which 99% of programmers throw up their hands at the futility of trying to guess what lies 20 years in the future, and just writes the fscking code. I mean, you've just ruled out both Haskell98 *and* Haskell-with-extensions.